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Marcia Trimble was a nine-year-old girl who disappeared on February 25, 1975 while delivering Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood of Green Hills in Nashville, Tennessee. Her body was discovered 33 days after her disappearance, on Easter Sunday, near the Trimble family home. She had been sexually assaulted. The case went unsolved for more than 30 years. One suspect was charged in 1979, but released in 1980 for lack of evidence. In 2008, Jerome Sydney Barrett was charged with the assault and murder of Marcia Trimble, after DNA recovered with her remains linked him to the crime. He had been indicted and convicted in other attacks on women and children around the time of Trimble's murder. On July 18, 2009, a jury convicted 62-year-old Jerome Barrett of two counts of second-degree murder. Barrett was sentenced to 44 years in prison. ==Early murder investigation== Marcia Trimble disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood. The case was investigated by local and state police. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) joined the case due to the possibility of kidnapping. Trimble's body was discovered more than a month later. She was found to have been sexually assaulted before her death. Investigators scoured the neighborhood, believing it likely that the murderer was a local. Police attention soon focused on Jeffrey Womack, a fifteen-year-old who lived in Trimble's neighborhood. Womack was one of the last people to see Trimble alive. She had come to his house the day of her disappearance, but Womack said that he had sent her away because he did not have money to buy any cookies. Womack says that after he learned about the girl's disappearance he went to the Trimble house to tell the police there what he knew. According to Womack, the police aggressively questioned him and then made him empty out his pockets. Inside, the police found a half roll of pennies, a five dollar bill, and a condom. This seemed to contradict Womack's testimony that he lacked the money to pay Trimble, and the condom apparently suggested to police that he may have sexually abused Trimble. Womack would later say that he had the condom because he was having a sexual relationship with a local woman. According to Womack, his mother and a neighbor found out that the police were questioning him and insisted that any further interrogations needed to be done with a lawyer present. Reporter Demetria Kalodimos believes that Womack's decision to call a lawyer made police more suspicious of him as they felt that an innocent person had no need for a lawyer. Womack's attorney, John Hollins, advised him to stop cooperating with police. After that, Womack refused to discuss the case either with police or the media. Unable to obtain a confession, the police resorted to other means to try and gather evidence on Womack. When Womack was seventeen and working as a bus boy in a restaurant, the police sent an undercover officer into the restaurant to befriend Womack, but they gathered no incriminating evidence. Upon interrogation, Womack passed two polygraph tests. In 1980, authorities finally arrested Womack for Marcia Trimble's murder, but the case ended up being dismissed for lack of evidence. However, many police officers involved in the case continued to believe that Womack was guilty.〔http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/507/transcript〕 DNA samples were taken from semen collected from Trimble's body. The DNA was stored improperly and deteriorated over time. The DNA sample could have been used to exclude suspects, but an exact match could not be confirmed due to sample deterioration. Police initially collected DNA samples from 96 suspects, including Womack. The 96 samples were each ruled out as matches for the DNA found with Trimble's body. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Marcia Trimble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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